Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008
Biography:
African American minister and civil rights activist; He served as chairman of the Nashville Student Movement from 1960 to 1961 and was a founding member of SNCC and of the SCLC. He organized civil rights protests in Nashville, Jackson, and Birmingham. In particular, he organized the Children's Crusade in Birmingham in 1964. Bevel and wife Diane Nash proposed the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. Bevel was present at King's assassination. (Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights, 1992)
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Eyes on the Prize Interviews (Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries)
- Highlander Folk School: A Photographic History (Highlander Research and Education Center)
- Photograph of a group, including Fred Shuttlesworth and Guy Carawan, sitting in a meeting in the library, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of C.T. Vivian holding a strategy session for the Selma movement with Hosea Williams, Martin Luther King Jr., and Reverend Ralph Abernathy, 1965 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Ella Baker in group including Fred Shuttlesworth and James Bevel outside the library during twenty-fifth anniversary, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1957 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Individuals Active in Civil Disturbances, volume 2 (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
- Nashville Public Library Digital Collections Portal: Civil Rights (Nashville Public Library)
- Selma to Montgomery : A March for the Right to Vote : A Visual History by Spider Martin (Spider Martin Photograph Collection)
- Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Mississippi field trip report] (Reports)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Mississippi field trip report] (Reports)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of James L. Bevel following his arrest for his participation in the Freedom Rides, Jackson, Mississippi, 1961 May 24 (Black-and-white photographs)
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)